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Presidents have been intrigued and sustained by events in the air since the nation's birth. From Philadelphia in 1793, George Washington wrote out a note in English for Jean Pierre Blanchard so that the French balloonist, on his pioneering flight over the Delaware River, would not panic the New Jersey natives. Thomas Jefferson benefited from early airmail in 1803: a carrier pigeon flew from New York to Washington bearing the good news that Napoleon had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Teddy Roosevelt was the first occupant of the White House to fly, even though he was no longer...
...Jean-Marie Chevalier, a professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, suggested that Mitterrand's ascendancy will in no way amount to the forced socialization of the French economy. Said Chevalier: "Most of the decisions will be taken very slowly." If all the industries slated for nationalization by Mitterrand during his presidential campaign are in fact taken over, the amount of state control of industry would rise only from about 12% to just...
...President discussed the ground rules for the voting with leaders of the four main political parties. In separate meetings, he received Socialist Lionel Jospin, Communist Boss Georges Marchais, Paris Mayor and Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Jean Lecanuet, head of Giscard's demoralized Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.). Mitterrand's gesture of consulting with friend and foe alike reinforced the new administration's tone of national unity...
DIED. Jeannette Piccard, 86, pioneering balloonist who, along with her late husband Swiss Scientist Jean Piccard, became the first woman to probe the stratosphere in a balloon flight over Lake Erie in 1934, and who 40 years later became one of the first American women to be ordained an Episcopal priest; of cancer; in Minneapolis...
News of the attack dominated front pages from Boston to Bangkok. JEAN PAUL II: THE WORLD APPALLED read the 1½-in. headline in Paris' daily Le Figaro. In Johannesburg, an afternoon Star editorial bemoaned the violence "that seems to pervade the whole world." The New York Times devoted its first seven pages to the story and upped its pressrun by 180,000, to 1.16 million. The Los Angeles Times hit the streets two hours earlier than usual with a rare extra edition; the Washington Star printed two extra editions within hours of the shooting. In Vatican City, staffers...